Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Summary

Since this map is covering such a large part of the earth it is considered a small scale map. Even though this map isn’t able to provide specific detail or structures it covers more of earth’s surface providing a larger display. This map focuses more on the overall view of data and spread rather than focusing on one certain

Laura Hebert argues the maps have to distort reality because it is hard to represent our sphere planet onto a flat surface like a map. This shows it’s not possible to perfectly represent the Earth because the Earth is a three-dimensional object yet, maps show the Earth on a two-dimensional surface.

Cartographers use inset maps to give the reader more information. Sometimes they are zoomed in, but other times they are zoomed out. Cartographers divide the globe into four hemispheres - north, south, east, and west.

“Maps were one of the most influential inventions in history. Almost everyone uses maps daily, whether it be through a GPS or a physical map. Maps give us a sense of direction, and there is no way that the world would be able to function without maps. They have been used throughout all of history and always will be used. This is the first map of the world, or what they thought the world was, created by Anaximander in 6th century BC. He also created a map of the universe, as shown above.

map. The cartographer was as specific and showed his/or her sources which are listed at the

I would like to start off by saying that all of my places are all the same size because I only drew the important places that I go to most often. My map was very vague because I wouldn't be able to draw and fit everything on my page. The centermost thing on my map is my home because it is the most important place to me. Everything else seems to be on the edges of the map because they are physically further away from me. I drew Lake Tahoe/Sly Park the smallest and furthest because I go there a little less often that everywhere else on my map.

Migration, otherwise known as gene flow is the transfer of alleles from one population to another.

Mapping has been a part of humankind for centuries. From the most elite societies to the most humble ones mapping has had a very large impact on how civilizations view the world. In our society mapping is relatively straightforward. We consider a map to be a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea, which we use to determine our surroundings and chart our destinations. What many of us fail to realize is that there is more than one way to map. The lectures provided by Dr. Wismath, Dr. Leroy Little Bear and chapter four of Asher’s work Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures describe their own unique ways that land can be significant to different groups of people. With that significance comes a unique way of

Map projections are needed in order to create maps. A map projection is used to depict all or part of the earth on a flat surface. In order to create a map projection one must select a model for the Earth’s shape and transform geographic coordinates from longitude and latitude to Cartesian coordinates. All map projections have some distortions. Some examples of types of map projections are cylindrical, pseudocylindrical, and conic.

On the map, one can see a tool indicating the scale of the map. This same looking tool can be found in the book “Compass and Rule” in an exhibition called “Bartholomew Newsam, set of drawing instruments, c. 1570.” This is the only known surviving Elizabethton drawing set in modern day (Gerbino 61). This tool could have been used to scale the map, which can be seen in the one-square-mile gridlines. In addition, by connecting these tools to those used likely by military engineers, one can assume that the gridlines had a purpose besides denoting the scale of the map. If only the scale was important, the British could have simply put a key on the map showing 1 inch = 1 square mile, for example. Since they drew the entire grid, it could be interpreted as being done to perhaps reproduce the map for military purposes. It may have been easier to redraw the map to accurate scale by producing these gridlines. Thus, one could predict that this map may have been reproduced in a smaller form for military personnel to effectively defend this

The 5 themes of geography are location, place, movement, interaction and region. Location tells you where a place is. Place shows you what it’s like when you get there. Movement helps people and ideas get around. Interaction is what the people do to the environment and what the land does for the people. Region is what cultures have in common.

The article does an excellent job in implications of the interconnections between people and locations, two important aspects within human geography. For example, the global use of landmines would be an example of spatial diffusion (Knox, 2013, p. 23). Landmines are explosive weapons that indiscriminately target civilian and combatants. Their cheap costs and high effectiveness against humans saw such weapons employed in many military conflicts across the globe. Non-governmental organizations also represent the correlation between people and places as NGOs by their mission objectives and physical work, are carried across numerous places around the world. More famous NGOs would be like the World Health Organization or the Red Cross, famed for

First thing’s first; this tutorial is written mainly to remind myself of the steps I go through when making a map…much of this will sound like a lecture but it’s how I work and what I’m thinking, my steps might not be perfect and my observations might be incorrect. Next, look at a GLOBE of the earth not a flat map, this is because a flat map will distort things near the poles to make them look larger than they really are (Greenland looks huge on a flat map). Get the proportions of landmass to ocean roughly in your mind (our earth is 70% water, I think) and take some measurements if you want to by using a piece of string then holding the string up to a ruler. For this tutorial I’m going to do a small continent (2000 X 2000).

This process of human migration depicts how globalization can be described in many different facets. Social and cultural globalism involves the spread of ideas, information, and images (Nye and Donahue, 5). The individuals who carry these ideas, information, and images carry them to different areas of the globe and thus spread new thoughts and creations. Technology can easily be involved with social and cultural globalism, as many different areas create new technology and other locations replicate them. Some sociologists know this process of essentially copying another cultures ideas as “isomorphism” (Nye and Donahue, 5). Isomorphism is used in multiple aspects of globalization but none more than technology. When different areas create new advanced technology, there is no time wasted but other nations in trying to recreate said technology. Technological globalization can be understood with more ease when the other facets of globalization are known, and how they interact. Technology as one globalism does not act alone in shaping the growing globalized world, it is partnered with each aspect mentioned before to create a world that is much smaller than we know, even if not in a literal sense. Of course, while there are multiple different forms of globalism that contribute to the globalization of the world, technology has its own components that make it so unique.

Before, there was a word “geography” happen, this branch of knowledge still related to other branches of knowledge; for example, mathematics, geometry, astrology, astronomy, even if magic. So, geographer in the past worked in many branches of knowledge. From history of many countries showed that there were many famous geographer travel to explore the world or find the answer of measure and coordinate of the world, such as Ptolemy; he is famous in Astronomer, Cartographer, and Mathematician; he is an earliest geographer of the world; Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, he is the first modern geographer. His famous work is “Cosmos”, it is a book which is about globe map. In addition, the purpose of the